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overlooked in drafting par. 5 of desp.
514/03; but the conditions approved 36 omit the word "Family",
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Policemen to
and therefore permit remit home for any purposes, as they may family do, when it is on
market rate,
only at
at the
To compensate for the change
in
remittances the rise would only be
for Constable, from $40 to $43 per month. and for Sergeants from $45 to $40½ (about)
& for 3rd Class Inspectors from $60 to $64½ (about)
that only
were done, there
would be hardly any
increase to the present Cost of the Police Establishment.
W. Deans however takes the opportunity of proposing a further rise, on the false assumption (apparently) that there Constables at $48 have a sort of right to an equivalent at 3/7½ of
about £100.
onr
*
We must again explain, in clearer terms than in par. 4 of desp. 5147 / which Mr Marsh failed to understand!) that the question of conversions does not affect that portion of the salary which is drawn & spent in the
in the Colony, a dollar is probably still has a greater purchasing power than 3 / has in England.
3/7½
Ghare
and we
I we may
and that even
if the Police now
1.
in the Colony have enlisted for a third period of years they will
advantage over them
still be have
rest of the service if they retire at the end of 15 years (see Mr Marsh's
last parag. remark,
but one.) Best before
we can
fix what
we are Just
increase, if any, is to be granted for it would future recruits, decide the pension question (left
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over on
whether Police are
Øv
to have,
M. March proposes pensions future at the end of 15 years;
whether their pensions should be guided by the same rules as in the rest of
the service, the age for retirement perhaps being lowered ? from 55 to 50.
After all I think it may, will to allow the increases,
by M. Deane :-
be
:s proposed
from $40 to thus for (unstable, $45 to $52 In Sergeants $60 to $67 for 3rd Class
We refused any increase
༤
Inspectors
orr
$64½
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Iut did not object to the proposals for a Carzer increase in the Straits Police (see 219812). And Jurad alternative sug.
Li
From $40 $50 for Constables with
moun
part
ntrations might ? first pointing out, as above,
wen instead dinerend
thout